Portable electric motor and cloth-cutting machine



(No Model.)

B. DQ WEYB'URN. PORTABLE ELEGTRIG MOTOR AND CLOTH CUTTING. MACHINE.

No. 442,654. Patented Dec. 16, 1890.

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ELBERT D. \VEYBURN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE \VEYBURN SPECIAL MACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

PORTABLE ELECTRIC MOTOR AND.CLOTH-CUTT|NG MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 142,654, dated December 16, 1890. Application filed April 5, 1890- Senal No. 346,74 l. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELBERT D. WEYBURN, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new, useful, and Improved Portable Motor and Cloth-Cutting Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which.

IO Figure l is a side view of said portable motor as it appears when suspended from a track in operative connection with a stationary motor and a cloth-cutter; and Fig. 2 is an end view of said motor and the tracks upon which it is suspended, the latter being shown in section.

Like letters of reference in the different figures indicate like parts.

In cloak and other factories for the mak- 2o ing of garments it is customary to have a number of tables upon which the cloth is arranged and marked in patterns, after which it is transferred to and secured upon the cuttin g-table, where the usual cutting-machine is 2 5 located.

time as well as the employment of a number of workmen.

The object of my invention is to overcome this difliculty and to so construct a traveling 0 motor in combination with a cloth-cutting machine that the cloth-cutter may be transferred from table to table indefinitely, and the cloth out upon the different tables as fast as the patterns are marked thereon without 5 necessitating a transfer of the goods, all of which is hereinafter more particularly described, and definitely pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, a to indicate o suspended track-rails secured to the ceiling of a room by means of brackets b b, Fig. 2, the rails being eitherin a straight line throughout the length of or arranged around an entire room, according as may be found most 5 desirable to meet the requirements of each case. Suspended from the tracks aby means of friction-rolls c is a frame d, upon which is This involves a considerable loss of mounted a small electric motor 6, the terminals f f of which are connected by means of trolleys f f to electric-cables g g, which receive energy from a stationary electric motor g A cut-out consisting of a pivoted lever h and contact-plate h is attached to the frame, as shown, and interposed in the circuit of the wire f. A cord j, attached to 5 5 the free end of the lever h and trained over a pulley j, is provided with handles 3' j whereby the lever It may be actuated and the motor started or stopped at will. Upon the motor-shaft is a pulley e, which is connected by means of a belt 6 to a pulley 70, mounted in abearin g supported by means of a bracket Z, attached to the frame d. The pulley 7c is attached to aspindle 712', which in turn is 0011- nected to a flexible shaft 072, arranged to opcrate a cloth-cutter a in the usual well-known way. Upon lifting the cutter n and grasping the shaftm the frame d and the motor thereon may be moved as desired and the cutting continued from table to table as fast as the cloth is prepared and the patterns marked thereon. I

The devices described are light, simple, and compact, and the advantage of beingable to transport the cutter to the work instead of having to move the work thereto is too obvious to require comment.

While said invention is especially applicable to a cloth-cutter, it is obvious that it may be applied in the transmission of power to other light machinery in like manner.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- The combination, with a suspended track of indefinite length, of an electric motor mounted in a movable frame upon said track, a source of electricity, wires connected with said source of electricity and in operative proximity to said track, electric connections attached to said motor and connected by 9 trolleys with said wires, a flexible shaft con nected with said motor, a cloth-cutting machine in operative connection with said shaft, and a switch-lever attached to a cord trained In vtestimony whereof I have signed this specification, in the presence of two subserib- IO ing witnesses, this 26th day of March, 1890.

ELBERT D. 'WEYBURN.

Witnesses: V

D. H. FLETCHER, J. HALPENNY'. 

